Bonus: An extra week to save on tickets to TC Sessions: Space 2020

When you’re laser-focused on reaching beyond the stars, it’s hard to remember more earthly, mundane tasks. That’s why we’re giving you an extra week to score early bird savings to TC Sessions: Space 2020 (December 16-17).

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Trump Loses String of Election Lawsuits, Leaving Few Vehicles to Fight His Defeat

The president’s efforts to use the courts to delay or block President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory were turned aside in cases in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona.

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Federal Prosecutors Push Back on Barr Memo on Voter Fraud Claims

The prosecutors, assigned to monitor this month’s elections, said they had found no evidence to back any “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities. WASHINGTON — Career Justice Department prosecutors pushed back this week against a memo by Attorney General William P.

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Al Qaeda’s No. 2, Accused in U.S. Embassy Attacks, Is Secretly Killed in Iran

Israeli agents shot Abu Muhammad al-Masri on the streets of Tehran at the behest of the U.S., officials said, but no one — Iran, Al Qaeda, the U.S. or Israel — has publicly acknowledged the killing.

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Watching CNN While Irish

LONDON — As the polls closed on Election Day in America, my family group chat thrummed with anticipation. Maps were shared. Probabilities mocked. We argued over exit polls, safe seats and swing votes, breaking off occasionally to ask what, precisely, the Electoral College was.

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Dominic Cummings: UK PM’s top adviser leaves Downing Street - what now? - BBC Newsnight

Dominic Cummings has left Downing Street after internal battles over his role as Boris Johnson's chief adviser. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog The BBC understands he will continue to work from home, on issues such as mass coronavirus testing, until the middle of December. The prime mi

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NextView Ventures closes its fourth fund with $89 million

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 million fund, according to SEC filings. The firm’s fourth fund, its largest to date, is oversubscribed, with early documents indicating a $70 million goal.

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Secret Service Struck Again by Coronavirus Outbreak

At least 30 officers in the agency’s Uniformed Division have tested positive in recent weeks. Another 60 or so were asked to isolate.

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Mr. President, Pack Your Bags and Be Gone

The ruler broods, alone with his rage and shame, undone by rejection, his mind, like Macbeth’s, “full of scorpions,” plotting to overturn facts and destroy American democracy. His lackeys, and only they remain, try to humor the master in his labyrinth. Mr.

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Google pulls the plug on Expeditions VR app, migrates tours to Arts & Culture

Google today announced that it is ending support for Expeditions. The VR app will also be pulled from its own Play Store and Apple’s App Store in June of next year.

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How to End ‘Women’s Work’

New Zealand is pursuing a century-old idea to close the gender pay gap: not equal pay for equal work, but equal pay for work of equal value. Ms. Sussman is a journalist.

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A Good Deal for California Gig Companies Is Bad for Their Workers

What happened in California? Despite the state’s liberal reputation, voters there last week approved Proposition 22, a ballot initiative exempting many gig companies from state workplace laws and stripping their workers of basic, essential protections.

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Leave Fat Kids Alone

I will remember the pediatrician’s words forever: It’s probably from eating all that pizza and ice cream. It tastes good, doesn’t it? But it makes your body big and fat. There was more: Just imagine that your body is made out of clay.

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What Happens if Trump Doesn’t Concede?

Hosted by Ross Douthat and Michelle Goldberg.

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Uneasy Under Lockdown, Pubs in England Count the Days Till Christmas

LONDON — At the Crooked Well, a neighborhood pub in south London that prides itself on its food, the Christmas menu is already decided. There will be venison and beef stews. But whether the stews will actually be served is another question.

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The Apocalyptic Politics of the Populist Right

By refusing to concede, Trump has sent a message to his fellow strongmen that this is a fight for survival. Mr. Krastev is a contributing Opinion writer.

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Can Trump still win? No. He’s already lost.

Nov. 12, 2020, 1:48 p.m. ETNov. 12, 2020, 1:48 p.m. ETFive days after television networks and other major news organizations called the presidential election for Joseph R. Biden Jr., President Trump continues to maintain that he “will win.”That is false.Mr.

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This fintech-focused VC firm just closed a $75 million debut fund; backers “came out of the woodwork”

It’s no secret that’s a massive digital transformation happening within financial services companies and amid the growing number of non-financial outfits that are also adding financial products to their offerings.

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The U.S. government sends mixed messages about TikTok’s future

The fate of TikTok in the United States got even more confusing this week. The U.S. Justice and Commerce Departments sent conflicting messages today about TikTok’s future, which is now up in the air with the upcoming administration transition.

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Election Officials Directly Contradict Trump on Voting System Fraud

Hours after President Trump repeated a baseless report that a voting machine system “deleted 2.

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Trump Floats Improbable Survival Scenarios as He Ponders His Future

There is no grand strategy. President Trump is simply trying to survive from one news cycle to the next.

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More voting software FUD falls flat after Trump highlights dubious data

Reports that Dominion Software, which provides voting tabulation tools to about half the states in the U.S., “deleted” millions of votes have been soundly rebuffed after outgoing President Trump parroted numbers from a random internet forum.

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Mitt Romney Has Some Thoughts on Our President-elect

Bipartisan efforts aren’t out of the question for Joe Biden, and are less risky than executive action. It’s easy to imagine ways Joe Biden’s presidency might open very badly. Covid-19 may still be spiking. The economy could slip back into recession.

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Small Cracks Emerge in G.O.P. Support for Trump’s Baseless Fraud Claims

President Trump retains a powerful hold on his party. But a growing number of Republican elected officials and party leaders have signaled they will indulge his conspiracy theories for only so long.

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A Republican Senate Would Be Bad for Business

So the blue wave fell short of expectations.

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California’s Coronavirus Caseload: 1 Million and Counting

More than half of California’s nearly 40 million residents live in counties now under the most restrictive measures for businesses and public gatherings. SAN FRANCISCO — California residents have become accustomed to receiving cellphone alerts about earthquakes and approaching wildfires.

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Sweet, Sweet Fantasies, Baby

Hosted by Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham. Produced by Hans Buetow.

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Dominic Cummings to leave Downing Street by Christmas - BBC Newsnight

Newsnight has learned Boris Johnson’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings will leave Downing Street by Christmas. How will this change government policy? Please subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's senior adviser Dominic Cummings is expected to leave his position by

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Daily Crunch: Apple releases macOS Big Sur

The latest Mac operating system arrives, Amazon faces a lawsuit over PPE and Disney+ turns one. This is your Daily Crunch for November 12, 2020. This update, which was first announced five months ago at WWDC, includes a number of design changes that continue to blur the line between macOS and iOS.

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Twitter labeled 300,000 US election tweets — around 0.2%

Just over a week after the U.S. elections, Twitter has offered a breakdown of some of its efforts to label misleading tweets. The site says that from October 27 to November 11, it labeled some 300,000 tweets as part of its Civic Integrity Policy. That amounts to around 0.

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Personal finance startup Truebill raises $17M

Truebill, a startup offering a variety of tools to help users take control of their finances, announced today that it has raised $17 million in Series C funding. When I first wrote about the startup in 2016, it was focused on helping users track and cancel unwanted subscriptions.

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Inside Parler, the Right's Favorite 'Free Speech' App

The top app on both Google and Apple's app stores this week promises conservatives a safe space—but gives priority treatment to its most high-profile users.

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China to ship 3 billion parcels during post-COVID Singles’ Day

China’s e-commerce behemoths Alibaba and JD.com again claimed to have set records during the world’s largest shopping event, Singles’ Day.

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Fact-Checked on Facebook and Twitter, Conservatives Switch Their Apps

Since the election, millions have migrated to alternative social media and media sites like Parler, Rumble and Newsmax. Corey Adam, a political comedian from Minneapolis, joined a mass social media switcheroo last week.

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Georgia’s Close Elections Sent Republicans After a Republican

ATLANTA — Brad Raffensperger, the beleaguered top elections official in Georgia, considers himself the most loyal of Republicans. There was no question which candidates he would support in last week’s election. “I’ve only ever voted for Republicans,” Mr.

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President-elect Joseph Biden reportedly plucks Revolution’s Ron Klain as new chief of staff

Klain was Biden’s chief of staff for two years during the Obama administration and left his post as chief of staff in 2011 to join Revolution, the firm founded by former AOL chief executive and founder Steve Case. Revolution did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Rivian electric pickup will debut with three editions, with a cheaper one to follow

Rivian is opening up pre-orders for three editions of its upcoming electric pickup truck and SUV that start as low as $67,500 and with a battery range of more than 300 miles.

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Election Showed a Wider Red-Blue Economic Divide

Some partisan differences were scrambled, but places with brighter future prospects swung toward Biden. Local voting patterns in the presidential election showed a narrowing of several traditional divides.

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For Pence, the Future Is Tied to Trump as Much as the Present Is

If President Trump announces he will run again in 2024, his vice president’s plans could be derailed.

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Trump Stacks the Pentagon and Intel Agencies With Loyalists. To What End?

So far, there is no evidence the appointees harbor a secret agenda or arrived with an action plan. But their sudden appearance amounts to a purge of the Pentagon’s top civilian hierarchy without recent precedent.

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Who Are the Senior Officials at the Pentagon and the N.S.A?

The arrival of the new officials has prompted concerns. Their backgrounds offer insights into their policies.

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An Intramural Republican Fight Breaks Out Over the C.I.A. Director’s Fate

Frustration about Gina Haspel among some of President Trump’s allies stretches back to the impeachment inquiry, officials said. WASHINGTON — Internal Republican divisions over the fate of Gina Haspel’s tenure as C.I.A.

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Covid-19 Live Updates: As U.S. Breaks Hospitalization Records, N.Y. and Other States Add Restrictions

With coronavirus cases surging in New York and across the country, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Wednesday that private indoor and outdoor gatherings statewide would be limited to 10 people and that gyms, bars and restaurants must close daily at 10 p.m.

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Pick the Worst of Trump’s Worst

We’ve been through a lot these last few days, people. Decades from now, some of you are going to have to answer your grandchildren when they ask you about the Time of the Two Presidents. Donald Trump’s resistance to the idea that he lost the election isn’t a surprise.

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Trump’s Election Tantrum

When my oldest son was 3 years old we got him into a preschool class at an elite private school across the street from Prospect Park in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn.

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When Trump Vandalizes Our Country

As it became clear that she would lose the 2016 election and news organizations called the race for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton spoke to her supporters. She did not boast that she had won 2.9 million more votes than Trump. She did not file lawsuits to try to reverse thin margins.

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How has the UK reached 50,000 coronavirus deaths? - BBC Newsnight

The UK has become the first country in Europe to pass 50,000 coronavirus deaths, according to the latest government figures. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog As of 11 Novemeber, a total of 50,365 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up 595 in the past 24 hours. The

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Study: London and SF have become Impact Tech hubs, with 280% increase in VC in 5 years

New research has found that San Francisco and London have become two of the world’s leading hubs for VC investment into tech solutions which address one or more of the 17 UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), more commonly referred to as ‘Impact Tech’.

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Biden to Name Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff

Mr. Klain, a lawyer and veteran Democratic operative who first worked for the president-elect in 1989 when he was a senator, has been a sharp critic of President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus. WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.

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Trump’s Post-Election Tactics Put Him in Unsavory Company

Denying defeat, claiming fraud and using government machinery to reverse election results are the time-honored tools of dictators.

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